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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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Einstein: "Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss."

Nietzsche (1887): "...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn."

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This page is dedicated to Dostoevsky's short stories.

Apart from Dostoevsky's published works, there are pages and pages of text dedicated to his literary art, his life, philosophical, religious or political views, which only leaves us with another not fully exploited idea - to popularize Dostoevsky's short stories in such a way that the reader's interest is awaken or ... not, until perhaps some later time in his life.

To achieve this objective, fragments of Dostoevsky's short stories and quotes will be copied here, with appropriate link to full online editions.

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The Double

                     (A Petersburg Poem)         & nbsp; ...
Posted by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

The Crocodile

  An Extraordinary Incident A true story of how a gentleman of a certain age and of respectable appearance was swallowed alive by the crocodile in the Arcade, and of the consequences that followe...
Posted by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:37:00 PST

The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

http://www.russianshortstories.com/dostoyevsky/the_christmas _tree_and_the_wedding/ The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor M. Dostoevsky& Exactly five years ago, on New Year's Eve, I was in...
Posted by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:20:00 PST

The Grand Inquisitor

[The idea is that Christ revisits earth, coming to Spain at the period ofthe Inquisition, and is at once arrested as a heretic by theGrand Inquisitor. One of the three brothers of the story, Ivan, ara...
Posted by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:28:00 PST

The Idiot

[This is a short story within the famous novel, written in 1869. Link to the novel at the bottom. Enjoy.] Translator:  Eva Martin "...I think I had better tell you of another man I...
Posted by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:57:00 PST

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decided that there was nothing to live for in the world, and therefore was determined to...
Posted by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:09:00 PST